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Re: ring off, hang up

Your example is in the past tense, so it should read "suddenly she just hung up."

In AmE, "hanging up" is almost always used to refer to the termination of a telephone call. (The earliest telephones were always wall-mounted, and the receiver literally hung from a hook, which is how this expression developed.) I believe in BrE they sometimes say "ring off," but one of our UK members can better answer than.